"What did he do?" Aegon's heart raced with sudden unease.
No matter how hard he tried, he could not replay the battle inside his head. The details slipped away like smoke.
"Doesn't matter," he muttered, forcing his focus elsewhere. "I will gather more data to deal with him."
His mind drifted instead to a hidden defect, an illusory pawn planted deep within his thoughts.
That piece sat close to Nightflame's location, carefully observing everything around the target without drawing attention.
Aegon's true goal remained Nightflame. He had planned every meticulous step to claim him.
Another person under watch was Aqua. Unlike Nightflame, capturing Aqua would not be easy. Within the entity Aqua belonged to, supernatural abilities were supposed to be impossible.
Only Aaron and his clones stood as the strange anomalies who could still wield power there.
